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Incoming References

As opposed to the Outgoing References
view, the Incoming References
view shows the list of objects that have
references to a particular instance.

Use this view to answer the question "Who does retain the instance in memory?"

The list of objects that reference an instance consists of the following columns:

Name

Description

Type

Type name.

References count

The number of objects referenced from a certain instance.

Bytes

The size of a certain instance in bytes.

Retained bytes

The overall size in bytes of all objects exclusively retained by a certain instance.

Example

What Can I Analyze Next?

In the
Incoming References view, you can select the following subjects for further analysis:

An instance
To select a particular instance for analysis, double click on it in the list. Another way to do it is the
context menu: right-click on the interested instance and choose
Open this instance.
After this, the [Type_name]
subject will be added to the Analysis Path and you can use specific instance views to analyze the instance in
more details.

Retained object set
To see what objects are exclusively retained by a certain instance, right-click on the instance in the list and
choose Open objects retained by this instance.
After this, the Retained objects
subject will be added to the Analysis Path and the list of retained objects will be
displayed in the Type List view.